Old mate,my comment will be a saying in my country :
Rron shqiponja ne maje te malit,rron dhe miza ne bythe te kalit!
Rough translation-lives an eagle on top of the mountain,lives a mosquito in the back of a horse.
It is to compare someone proud who lives as a free being (in the figure of an eagle, the symbol of freedom) with someone who lives on the mercy of others (a mosquito ).
Sorry but it is true. ...